Re: anyone know how ICE "get closest location" actually works under the hood?

2020-03-30 Thread Steven Caron
I am not suggesting you copy it... read the comments and treat it as a guide as how to make your own. Jerome left really detailed comments! On Mon, Mar 30, 2020 at 6:47 PM Ben Paschke wrote: > Oh man! I would if I could!! > > -- Softimage Mailing List. To unsubscribe, send a mail to

Re: anyone know how ICE "get closest location" actually works under the hood?

2020-03-30 Thread Ben Paschke
Oh man! I would if I could!! - Original Message - > From: "Steven Caron" > To: "Official Softimage Users Mailing, List. >

Re: anyone know how ICE "get closest location" actually works under the hood?

2020-03-30 Thread Steven Caron
oh, if we are going that route I would look up the FabricEngine implementation as a guide/hint since it was written by the same person who maintained much of the Softimage implementation. [image: image.png] On Mon, Mar 30, 2020 at 5:48 PM Ben Paschke wrote: > Just for ideas, maybe you could

Re: anyone know how ICE "get closest location" actually works under the hood?

2020-03-30 Thread Ben Paschke
Just for ideas, maybe you could check out blender source code for the implementation of their closest_point_on_mesh function? Possibly in here somewhere:

Re: anyone know how ICE "get closest location" actually works

2020-03-30 Thread Matt Lind
'Get closest Locations' is patent protected, so you won't be able to do anything commercial from the algorithm as implemented (but you may be able to find it's description at the patent office). I spoke with the author of that tool at great length a few years ago as I had questions about

Re: freelance work

2020-03-30 Thread Tekano Bob
same here, have had upcoming contracts cancelled and newer ones seem to have dried , will be same for everyone and competition will only increase. Us Freelance folks in UK on PAYE short term contracts will end up with zero support from government so we have no choice but to find new work or out

Re: freelance work

2020-03-30 Thread Chris Marshall
Hey thanks guys. I'm pretty solid on After Effects as there's been more call for that kind of work generally over the last few years, so have also picked up some C4D skills as the result of that. It's going to be a weird few months absolutely. On Mon, 30 Mar 2020 at 14:13, Matt Morris wrote: >

Re: anyone know how ICE "get closest location" actually works under the hood?

2020-03-30 Thread Ed Manning
touchdesigner. Should have mentioned we need it run on the GPU. On Mon, Mar 30, 2020 at 1:06 AM Steven Caron wrote: > I don't know the exact implementation but generally speaking they are > spatial queries backed by some sort of an acceleration structure with some > barycentric coordinates to

Re: freelance work

2020-03-30 Thread Matt Morris
Hey Chris, I'm thanking my lucky stars that I'm on a slightly longer schedule show, rigging/anim in maya - but things are definitely slowing down out there. Will hit hard in a couple of months when there are no productions left to need vfx. I'm really hoping that full animation is seen as a decent

Re: freelance work

2020-03-30 Thread patrick nethercoat
Hey Chris, Times are weird, for sure. I've had a number of jobs disappearing. The work I've got is design and 2d stuff, and a fair amount of pitching, and the rates are not great, but it's work at least. I am seeing job calls still, so there is stuff happening, but as the post work gets finished

Re: freelance work

2020-03-30 Thread Chris Marshall
Hopefully everyone's doing ok and obviously we're all in the same boat here. Stay safe out there. On Mon, 30 Mar 2020 at 12:04, Chris Marshall wrote: > Hi > Anyone know of any freelance work out there, home working etc? > > Cheers > Chris > > > -- > Chris Marshall > 07730 533 115 >

freelance work

2020-03-30 Thread Chris Marshall
Hi Anyone know of any freelance work out there, home working etc? Cheers Chris -- Chris Marshall 07730 533 115